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crowned with white, a jet black caudal spot crowned with yellow, 

 orange or orange-red; a dark marginal line. Cilia whitisli. 



9. 12-15 mm. (14). Upperside with costal and outer 

 margins broadly brown, centrobasal areas blue, in which the 

 nervules are usually marked with brown. On hindwing a sub- 

 marginal interneural series of white lunules, sometimes only con- 

 fined to anal angle. A dark caudal spot. Cilia white, slightly 

 brown at terminations of nervules. Tail as in ^. 



Underside brown, usually darker than in ^, with spots and 

 bands as in ^, but much better defined and usually with much 

 wider white borders. Caudal and anal spots as in ^, but larger. 

 In some specimens white suffusions present beyond discal bands 

 in both wings; and in one specimen, with the exception of band 

 and spots, nearly the whole of hindwing suffused with white. 



This species was described and figured by Hewitson from a 

 female specimen; his figure represents a form which is rather the 

 exception than the rule. Semper was the first to describe the 

 male, and the remarks of these early entomologists leave no doubt 

 in my mind that Lucas' species is the same. Druce has pointed 

 out that T. eremicola is a synonym. 



This species, which bears a superficial resemblance to Foly. 

 boeticus, is one of the most variable of our Australian Lyccenidcv, 

 it being very difficult to get two specimens exactly alike. S3dney 

 specimens are much paler and more suffused on the underside 

 than those from Mackay, while those from N.W. Australia are 

 also paler, but they are not much suffused. Amongst over one 

 hundred specimens from five or six different localities I have 

 examined, I find it very difficult to say exactly which is the 

 typical form. 



Loc. — Sydney to Cape York, Port Darwin, North West Aus- 

 tralia {$ 40, 9 15). 



Utica onycha var. atrosuffusa, var.nov. 



(J. 10-11 mm. Neuration and shape as in U. onycha {$) but 

 much smaller; tail shorter and more highly ciliated. 

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